After my delivery on Friday I get to leave work early as my boss tells me "there is nothing to load for Monday, so you can go home and work on your boat". With a 3 day weekend and orders from The Boss to do boat work I'll take a line from Doug....Whoo Hooo!!!!
I get some extra help as my boatn' butty Ethan stops by. You remember Ethan.
First on the agenda is to finish assembly of the front seats. When I built the seats last year I couldn't get the backs to bend around the slight curve of the base . See the seat build here...
http://forum.cgoamn.com/index.php?topic=5067.msg67422#msg67422Here they are as I left them.
We'll use some steam to get the backs to bend. Here Ethan puts the finishing touches on the steam box.
Steam box completed. Enough work for tonight.
SATURDAY MORNING
First chore is to preheat the box to 212 degrees than I loaded one back at a time into the box and steamed it for about 15 minutes. Because of the size it was slow getting the box up to temp. I tacked on some scrap insulation panel which sped up the heating process.
Once the piece is heated you need to work fast and attach it to the base before it cools. Here are the finished seats ready to be covered.
That finishes the front seats so it's time to start on the rear bench.
My plan is to use the bench from the silver parts boat and save the bench from the gold boat to reference when it's time to put it all back together. There is only one problem with that plan. The bench is so rotten by the time we got the seat into the basement it already started to disassemble itself. Sigh.
So it's back to square one. The seat from the gold boat will be used to make the patterns. I'll have to rely on pictures to use as reference.
OK, I don't see the piece that holds the seat bottom up. You can see the remains of staples where it was attached. Wasn't on the silver boat either.
Anyone have pictures or dimensions of the missing piece?
Here we are in the middle of teardown.
Everything is apart and ready to cut new pieces.
All new wood cut and ready for final assembly.
That's it for now. Stay tuned for the next installment when we put all the pieces back together.